An Extraordinary Lawyer’s Subspace - Chapter 180



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【Episode 180 – Records of the Future】

Ohio,

City of Columbus.

The office of Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Pearson.

“I have brought you a few things that I think you might be interested in regarding the cryptocurrency regulation bill you are promoting.”

Beom-sang handed the documents he had prepared to Representative Joyce Pearson.

She is very curious about what is contained in the documents he handed her.

She had already talked to Beomsang two days ago.

Joyce Pearson opened the folder with a start.

It contains neatly organized information.

If she were to introduce it, here’s a list of Republicans who are likely to vote for her bill.

She quickly scanned the list.

She flinched in surprise.

It matches more than 80% of the projected roster her team came up with.

What’s even more surprising is that it has not yet been proposed.

Joyce Pearson looked at the ordinary with a mixture of fondness and caution.

“I asked you when you called, but I’ll ask you again. How did you know I was preparing a cryptocurrency regulation bill?”

“If you look at the congressman’s actions over the past three years, anyone can guess that much.”

Joyce Pearson has been opposed to the issuance of cryptocurrencies by large corporations.

There has been a growing voice calling for a broad interpretation of the Securities and Exchange Act to regulate such investment solicitations, and as part of this, a cryptocurrency regulation bill was being prepared.

As the general answered, it was possible, but looking at the materials he brought, it was not at the level of a simple inspection.

The things she has prepared for with the team for three years are clearly organized in it.

It may not be considered top secret information, but it is similar enough to make you feel like your true feelings have been revealed.

“You said you were a lawyer?”

“I am a student in the United States.”

“Harvard Law School?”

“yes.”

“Is this a master’s thesis project?”

“Um- not exactly. It is an area of ​​interest to me, though.”

“It’s not my area of ​​research, it’s just something I’m interested in, but I’ve compiled a list of Republican lawmakers and why they’re interested in this bill?”

“yes.”

“Why is it hard to believe?”

“I have a favor to ask of you, Congressman.”

When we spoke, I also mentioned a favor.

After actually looking at the material I brought, it becomes even more difficult to understand.

Although the key to lobbying is ‘give-and-take,’ this is the first time I’ve seen anyone lobby this way.

And international student status? Korean lawyer? Saudi Aramco?

‘What is this strange combination?’

“Are you employed by Aramco?”

Joyce Pearson asked Andy Nasser, who was with her,

If you only look at his appearance and mannerisms, he seems more like a lobbyist.

“If you’re asking me if I’m a lawyer advising Aramco, the answer is, ‘Yes, I am.’ If you’re asking if I’m a lobbyist hired by Aramco, the answer is, ‘No, I’m not.’”

In fact, Andy was also confused about the situation.

I heard an explanation before coming in, but I didn’t know it would be this bad.

Whatever it was, it was clear that the ordinary had captured Pearson’s heart.

He is doing his best to be his sidekick.

Joyce Pearson’s gaze turns back to the ordinary.

I have so many questions.

There is a ‘why’, but there is also a ‘how’.

Many people have felt such doubts about ordinary people.

She was just the first.

Joyce Pearson, who carefully considered the ‘gift’ placed before her, confirmed what the common man wanted.

“So what you want to do is, at the ESCRDI hearing next month at the SEC, you want Aramco to ask the questions that they want to ask?”

I plan to give and take.

“I hope you will consider it.”

Even the manners are neat.

-*-

Andy Nasser and Han Beom-sang leave Congresswoman Joyce Pearson’s office and get into a car.

Even as the car started moving, Andy started asking questions.

“When did you research all that?

Did you really expect this from the moment you asked for the Omar Sayed file?

Cryptocurrency regulation laws?

Is this a field you were really interested in?

I don’t know if I’ll be able to tell, but from the looks of it, Congresswoman Joyce Pearson looks quite surprised.

You···what the···are···you···”

Even as I say this, I feel embarrassed.

The vice president just asked me to look into one sexual harassment case…

When I spoke to Daran, I had no idea that the story would turn out this way.

“After reviewing the materials you sent, I found that they are related to the carbon technology project that we will be carrying out with MG, as Vice President Al Zawawi said. It is obvious that there will be a lot of burden when ESCRDI (Enhancing and Standardizing Climate-related Disclosure for Investors Act) comes into effect.”

“That’s true, but···.”

We never asked you to do it,

No, I never explained it to you.

All I did was send over a few lobby files that Omar Sayed was managing…

Andy Nasser could hardly close his gaping mouth.

“This is all I can do.”

“That’s it? Do you know how much we were paying Omar, that bastard, to win over Senator Pearson?”

“It’s still too early to feel at ease.”

“I really want to make you drop out of school right now. How much? How much is enough?”

“Even if you gave me a billion dollars, that wouldn’t happen?”

“Why on earth are you so obsessed with Harvard Law School?”

“Obsessed with Harvard Law School?”

“No? Then, why?”

The lawyer next door, or should I say the lawyer who now lives in the same house?

“Yes, there is a reason for that.”

“In Boston?”

“huh.”

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can issue regulations for investors and review proposed regulations.

A hearing is a place where proposed regulations can be reviewed and opinions for and against them heard in front of SEC members.

Democratic Rep. Joyce Pearson was scheduled to attend the hearing that day and ask questions.

Aramco’s legal team will also attend.

Depending on what questions were asked and how they were asked that day, the atmosphere could change completely.

These hearings are not the kind of hearings where you can freely present your arguments.

Also, how opinions are conveyed to the committee is very important.

If there is someone on our side among the questioners, the presentation becomes much easier.

At the meeting earlier, Beom-sang had made Rep. Joyce Pearson an Aramco ‘ally’.

“And this.”

“What is this?”

The general took a USB memory stick out of his briefcase and handed it to Andy Nasser.

“I have compiled the questions and answers that will be asked at the hearing that day.”

“what?”

“I think you’re already prepared, but I don’t know what will happen if Omar Sayed becomes like that. Let me review it.”

At that moment, Andy Nasser made up his mind.

I’ll go all the way with Han Beom-sang.

“How much? You said a billion dollars?”

-*-

‘Is this a city created by someone from the future?’

The Library of Congress in the subspace contained records up to 2046.

Among them were bills proposed and enacted in the United States through 2046.

When I first saw the date, I was taken aback.

Are these really records of the future?

First, I checked the records up to now.

If it matches the records of the real world, then there is a high probability that it is a record of the future.

It matched.

‘Who?’, ‘How?’ The questions arise again.

But, for now, these are questions that must be put on hold.

I looked into it assuming that the materials inside were records of the future.

There were so many really interesting and surprising things.

Although it is less than 20 years away, if the events recorded in it actually happen, the future of the Republic of Korea is promising.

I read every story I could get my hands on that seemed like something out of a science fiction novel.

At first, I read mainly about things related to our country.

Next I read something about America.

It expanded like that, one by one.

Fortunately, a world war did not break out.

Environmental issues were still a challenge to be solved, but the Earth was not devastated or anything.

It also revealed who would be the next president.

The end of the war that is currently being fought.

Of course, there weren’t only good things happening.

There were also records of bad incidents.

‘Do all the events recorded here really happen?’

These were the thoughts that came to me after I had spent a long time reading it.

‘Did I exist in the future recorded here?’

‘If it existed, what role would it have played?’

As expected, these are questions for which we have no answers right now.

For now, I decided to use this information for the homework given to me.

First, I looked up Congresswoman Joyce Pearson.

Bills she has introduced and bills she will introduce.

Her past and future.

It worked.

The future information in the Library of Congress in subspace was useful.

Congresswoman Joyce Pearson was actually preparing to introduce a cryptocurrency regulation bill.

If ‘Future Records’ goes as planned, she will introduce this bill next year, and it will pass.

I also looked for records related to ESCRDI (Enhancing and Standardizing Climate-related Disclosures for Investors Act).

According to the ‘Future Records’, this time you won’t get through.

It comes into effect three years later.

Although it was a record of less than 20 years in the future, the amount was enormous.

The history of mankind.

If it weren’t for me, I wouldn’t be able to understand the whole thing by picking out just one of them.

How long was it in there?

I put down the notes I was reading and walked out.

Because I had no desire to become a god.

I want to live as a human being.

Before returning to reality, we stopped by a nearby bar.

The place where I drank rare whiskey last time.

I picked up one of the wines on display whose name I had heard of.

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Boston,

Beacon Hill Apartments.

“Hayoung, would you like some wine?”

“Oh- great! We have leftover pizza from yesterday. Oh, by the way, was there any wine at home?”

Beomsang took out the wine he had brought from the subspace.

“here.”

“Did you buy it?”

Ha-young is startled when she accidentally picks up the wine that Beom-sang took out of the refrigerator.

“Romanee-Conti Grand Cru! This… This, let’s drink it now?”

“huh.”

“With leftover pizza?”

“So what?”

I want to drink now.

Not later, but now, at this moment.

Kim and Kang’s lucky charm

March 5, 1770, before American independence,

Bloodshed breaks out on King Street in Boston.

British soldiers were firing on American civilians.

At that time, there was extreme discontent in the United States over the British Parliament’s passage of a bill to strengthen colonial taxation.

As threats against customs officers grew, the British government stationed regular troops in Boston.

However, poorly paid British soldiers began to take up side jobs, which led to another conflict: competition for jobs with colonial workers.

On a cold night on March 5, 1770, a few disgruntled dock workers began throwing snowballs filled with rocks at customs guards.

The beginning of the incident is unclear.

Some said that the dock workers started the quarrel, while others said that the soldiers were the ones who used violence first.

Even if the trigger for the incident was unclear, the underlying cause was clear.

The conflict between the home country and the colonies. It was the Americans’ growing discontent with British economic exploitation.